2 Samuel 5

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My Notes Authors Matthew Henry - Commentary on the Whole Bible If Salem, the place of which Melchizedec was king, was Jerusalem (as seems probable from Ps. lxxvi. 2), it was famous in Abraham’s time. Joshua, in his time, found it the chief city of the south part of Canaan, Josh. x. 1-3. It fell to Benjamin’s lot (Josh. xviii. 28), but joined close to Judah’s, Josh. xv. 8. The children of Judah had taken it (Judg. i. 8), but the children of Benjamin suffered the Jebusites to dwell among them (Judg. i. 21), and they grew so upon them that it became a _city of Jebusites, _Judg. xix. 11. Now the very first exploit David did, after he was anointed king over all Israel, was to gain Jerusalem out of the hand of the Jebusites, which, because it belonged to Benjamin, he could not well attempt till that tribe, which long adhered to Saul’s house (1 Chron. xii. 29), submitted to him. Here we have,